The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-31
SOUTH CAROLINA.

alarm system
Three horses have recently been stolen
| from Chesterfield county.
Thomas Purdy, of Verdery, recently had
his dwelling house destroyed by fire.
Forty-five thousand dollars has been
offered for a kaolin bed in Aiken county.
Mley Wright, blind colOred girl, was
burned to death at Allendale a few days
ago.
Eighteen teachers failed to get their GER
titicates at the recent examination in Barn
well county.
The Southern Oil Mill machinery, at Co
lumbia, has now all arrived and the mill is
working night and day.
The gin and mill of Philip w Bethea, of
Marion county, was recently destroyed by
| fire. Loss s., 600; no insurance.
Seaborn Clyburns left hand was recently
mangled in a cotton gin near Lancaster so
| badly that it had to be amputated.
The gin house of Mr.. Wilkeshire Evans,
/ in Chesterfield county, was recently de-
stroyed by fire, Loss $500; no insurance.
| Two brothers-in-law named Smalls cut
each other seriously in a fight at Wood
wards, in Barnwell county, few daysag
A fine second growth Of oats has sprung
up in field belonging to Mrs. Isabella
Dunovan in York county. They ara three
feet high.
AT Camden, an election has been ordered
for legislator to fill the unexpired term
of p. H. Nelson, resigned, to be held on
| Nov. s.
Capt. B. r. Tillman will address the
| farmer of Williamsburg on Nov. s. Col
A. p Butler or Col. d. P. Duncan will re-
ply to him.
| A meeting of the ex-Confederates of
| Hampton county will be held on the first
Monday in November, for the purpose of
| forming survivors association.
! The Game and Stock Protective Associa-
| ton of Georgetown has initiated proceed
| ings against two prominent citizens of that
county for violating the game laws.
| The constitutionality of the act imposing
| liability on railroad companies for the sala-
ries of railroad commissioners has been
affirmed by the State Supreme Court.
While a son of William Cox, of Williams
burg county, was loading one barrel of his
gun the other day, the other barrel dis
charged tearing large hole in his forehead.
J. b. Erwin, the express messenger in
| jured in the Greer's collision, had his right
| foot amputated Monday. He endured the
operation fairly well, and is expected to re-
cover.
A daughter of j. T. Shaw, of Lancaster
county, has mysteriously disappeared. She
was about seventeen years of age, and
there was no reason for her leaving the pa
rental roof.
The Confederate Monument Association
of Orangeburg has raised 1894 SO for the
| purpose of erecting monument to the
memory of the Confederate dead of Orange
burg county.
The Communication of sentence of Caesar
| White, colored, of Colleton county who at
| the last June term of court was convicted
| of murder and sentenced by Judge Hudson
to be hung, is announced.
A diseased rib was recently removed from
the side of Henry McMurray, of Lancaster
county. The operation is a delicate one,
and it is seldom performed. In this case it
| is thought that it will be attended with sue
cess.
Robert johnson (coloredD was killed by
| William Dudley johnson at Nichols, in
Marion county, on Oct. 90. Mr.. johnson
has left the State, but his friends say that
| he will return in time for a trial of his case
at the next term of court.
At Greenville number of candidates are
in the field for the office of Probate Judge,
left vacant by the death Of Judge Douthit.
| Among the number are Gen. Walter Gray,
Eli Clark, S. X. Clyde, DR.. n. l.. West, j.
T. Bramlett and c. A Parkins.
Adjt Gen. Bonham, accompanied by
Lieut.. Gov Mauldin and Maj. w. A. Hunt,
went down to Mauldin Station and inspected
the Lafayette Troop, a new military COM
pany just organized there. The company
tniRed out thirty eight rank and file and
passed very satisfactory inspection.
spol. Mike Brown, while in New York
short while ago, bought l.500 tons of steel
rails for for the Blackville and Newberry
r&ihoad, paying $4,000 in cash for them.
They have been shipped. AS soon as they
arrive j. II. Burckhalter will begin to lay
track, and before Christmas the iron horse
will make his triumphant entry into Five
| Points.
William Truesdel, colored water-carrier
on the Three C's road in Lancaster county,
! stole some dynamite cartridges and threw
| them into fire around which some colored
children were sitting. He ran off and
watched the effect of his deviltry at safe
distance. The cartridges exploded and one
boy was badly lacerated about the face
while another lost three fingers.
In the Dovesville section of Pickens county
one day last week a negro cabin on the
place of George w. Cox caught fire. There
was sick infant in the house and the
parents were away. Mrs. Clark, seeing the
danger, bravely ran into the burning cabin
and rescued the child, receiving at the same
time injuries from which she may die. The
house fell in just as she ran out, and she was
seriously burned.
Over six years ago John Wright, of the
/ Flat Rock section, near Camden, while as.